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47. What are study skills at undergraduate level?

Study skills include:

• Organising your study and managing your time
• Developing your reading and note-taking techniques to suit you and the subject
• Making connections between what you read, do and see
• Presenting your ideas in writing and answering questions (e.g. write assignments)
• Develop your own questions about the material you are studying and undertake limited research on a subject
• Analysing and presenting data, figures, formulae and experimental results
• Critically analysing what you read and discover about a subject
• Exploring how you learn effectively and use good study habits.

Undergraduate level one courses include activities that will help you to develop these skills.

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